“These mountains you are carrying, you were only suppose to climb.” ~Najwa Zebian As someone who writes and explores my own healing I have a confession: I don’t know how any of this actually works, but I know that I am learning to open up to understanding my pain and emotions by feeling them–rather than Read more

“In the end only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” ~Buddha A huge part of my journey is allowing my emotions, my body sensations, the constant story lines I create in my mind to simply rise and fall. Read more

“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.” ~Sarah Ban Breathnach When we take time to appreciate our life we take time to accept our life as it is. It may not be perfect, it may not be what Read more

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”~Erol Ozan These last few months I’ve learned to deeply trust myself, not because I know what decision to make or what is going to happen next, but because I know all I have are choices and I get to choose how my life moves forward. Now, Read more

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. …live in the question.” ~Rainer Maria Rillke Every moment of our life is uncertain. When we learn to dance with uncertainty rather than push it away we learn to live and love in the present. This is only gift we have to receive and share. Read more

“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” ~Haruki Murakami Jake and I met last year at Brownstone coffee shop as we bonded over our one-way ticket trips that we had somehow booked on the same day, May 19th, to Eastern Europe and Central America. Jake healing from trauma of the war, and Read more

My heart and soul are falling in love with Guatemala. I am in love with the people, the culture, the food and the beauty of the natural environment around me. My internal clock is waking up with the sunrise and finding rest as the sun sets. Everything is falling into place. Luckily my one Read more

“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.” ― Robert Frost I always loved the idea of looking at life as a blooming Read more

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Feeding The Heart

Feeding The Heart is a blog and resource dedicated to empowerment for whole heart living after trauma. I'm a writer, trauma sensitive-informed yoga teacher, and a trauma survivor here to share my story and journey of holistically healing.